Where to Find Free Images Online

In a perfect world, we could all take amazing photos, edit them scrupulously, and somehow manage to have enough props and stylish flair to snap the exact image you need to illustrate your post.

In the real world, we have access to other talented people who do that instead!

I’ve lost count of the posts I’ve pinned, sent to Evernote, or emailed to myself that round up great places to find free images on the internet. To save myself that headache (and hopefully you too!) here they all are, finally, in one place. Pin it for yourself!

Pexels

from their site: All photos on Pexels are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the photos. The pictures are free for personal and even for commercial use. All without asking for permission or setting a link to the source. So thatattribution is not required. All in all the photos are completely free to be used for any legal purpose.

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons has almost 25 million freely usable media files. You need to read their Reuse guide to check out the licensing requirements, though.

Getty Images

Getty Images has more than 50 million embeddable images – just hover over an image and click the </> icon to get the code to paste into your post.

Note: with Getty you can use these images IF you are non commercial. So if you’re making money from your blog – proceed with caution.

Public Domain Archive

Public Domain Archive

Public Domain Images are bloggers who have curated all the images in the public domain they’ve come across in one handy place. Both modern and vintage images to choose from.

Free Images

Free Images (previously stock.XCHNG) have stricter requirements with their licensing, so do check each image before use. Option to purchase other photos as well.

Open Photo

Open Photo has plenty of images, vectors, and even video to choose from.

New Old Stock

New Old Stock

New Old Stock is full of vintage photos from public archives, free of known copyright restrictions. You could scroll for hours!

Picography

As Picography says: Free high resolution photos. Use them however you like.

Creative Market

Creative Market is a paid service, with a weekly grab-bag of free images, fonts and other goodies to use on your blog.

Stokpic

Stokpic

Stokpic not only has beautiful images totally free to use for personal or commercial use, they will also email you a package of 10 every two weeks. Their image categories are listed right at the top so you can see at a glance if they have something you’re looking for.

Foodies Feed

Stockvault

A very easy search function lets you find exactly what you’re looking for straight away on Stockvault. You can read the permitted usage terms here.

Unsplash

Unsplash

A great selection of images, to which 10 new ones are added every 10 days. There isn’t any search function or categories list, which can make it hard to find something specific, but the current images are laid out in a grid format for you to view.

Photopin

Photopin has free photos for bloggers and creatives, which are accessed from the search bar on their home page.

StockSnap

And not technically photos, but Entypo has 411 pictograms for use on websites. Fun!

Where are your favourite places to get images? Are you a photographer yourself?

Stacey is the Managing Editor of ProBlogger.net: a writer, blogger, and full-time word nerd balancing it all with being a stay-at-home mum. She writes about all this and more at Veggie Mama. Chat with her on Twitter @veggie_mama or be entertained on Facebook.

About Stacey Roberts

Stacey Roberts is the Managing Editor of ProBlogger.net: a writer, blogger, and full-time word nerd balancing it all with being a stay-at-home mum. She writes about all this and more at Veggie Mama. Chat with her on Twitter @veggie_mama, follow on Pinterest for fun and useful tips, peek behind the curtain on Instagramand Snapchat, listen to her 90s pop culture podcast, or be entertained on Facebook.

Wow I just felt like I hit the jack pot! I was looking for places where I can find good free images and I happened to run into this blog post. All I have to say is that the Universe responded well with this one!

I was selling my stock, but last weekend I made them all free. I have a collection of over 600+ images (taken by me), that are great for blogs! Hope some readers here will come have a look!http://www.blogchickablog.com/shop

Thanks for the incredible list of free image sources. Glad to see Getty on the list so I can embed their images for free. Usually photo agencies charge an arm and a leg for pictures of celebrities. This list has a little something for bloggers looking for every kind of pic :-)

Currently I’m using the Google Image Search Filters to search for the images because at these photo websites I don’t get the exact type of photos for my blog posts that can be modified to look different and dedicated for the blog posts I’m going to publish.

Thanks for this resource list because I always care for the copyright infringement or say I always care for not getting those copyright claim emails.

Excellent!! I found a few more sites I hadn’t head about. I *love* Pixaby. And thanks for letting us know which sites are totally free with editable pics. Sometimes it is hard to find that info on the site AND it’s written in legal jargon. Can’t wait to find some awesome pictures!!

These are great sources of images, Stacy! From our survey, the biggest challenge for most bloggers is to have a source of free images and also making sure they don’t run into copyright issues. I’m putting together a free ebook with image resources and I have most of these, but not all. I’ll go check them out, thanks! :)

Hi,
Thanks very much for this resource!
I do have a question though. As a new – and insanely terrible with images – blogger, how do we move from finding these images, to creating our own bespoke images?

Does that start veering into graphical design? Is there a simple way to go about this as a beginner?

I’m sorry, one question always leads to another haha!

Thanks again, I really appreciate this website and it’s writers and posts.